Things We Hate

[SaddlerJonny]

The straw/dead grass that sticks to my socks when I walk in the garden.

 

[Magic]

He's not having speeches!

He's quite a stubborn, "do things my own way" type and didn't want to have to worry about talking in front of people so just decided not to have any. So I only really have to raise a toast I think.

Update:

2 years since the engagement, 4 weeks until the wedding, and he's asked me to do a speech. Been absolutely thrown under the bus and I'm not impressed. Got a busy month ahead as well.

 

[SaddlerJonny]

The online applications to supermarkets, so, so, so stupid.

"Which of these do you attend to first and which one last?
A picture of a distressed woman, a picture of a quizzical man, a picture of manager or a picture of a struggling colleague"

...all of them?!? How is this meant to work?

 

[PaulHaddock]

The online applications to supermarkets, so, so, so stupid.

"Which of these do you attend to first and which one last?
A picture of a distressed woman, a picture of a quizzical man, a picture of manager or a picture of a struggling colleague"

...all of them?!? How is this meant to work?

1. The distressed woman
2. The quizzical man
3. The manager
4. The struggling colleague

 

[SaddlerJonny]

1. The distressed woman
2. The quizzical man
3. The manager
4. The struggling colleague

That's what I answered too. It just seems far too convoluted, would people actually in reality ignore their manager trying to get their attention? I seem to overthink these things far too much.

 

[epic73]

You're supposed to say
1. The manager
2. The manager
3. The manager
4. The manager

 

[PaulHaddock]

That's what I answered too. It just seems far too convoluted, would people actually in reality ignore their manager trying to get their attention? I seem to overthink these things far too much.

Yeah, you're just overthinking it. Customer comes first, manager immediately after. A struggling colleague probably comes after yourself as well, depending on the workplace.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Obviously customers first.
Then colleague and lastly manager.

Manager wants you to sort your own shit out, help your work colleagues, don't bother him, he's trying to have a cup of tea.

 

[epic73]

The online applications to supermarkets, so, so, so stupid.

"Which of these do you attend to first and which one last?
A picture of a distressed woman, a picture of a quizzical man, a picture of manager or a picture of a struggling colleague"

...all of them?!? How is this meant to work?

I thought you were (training to be?) a policeman or something?

 

[Magic]

Just don't work at a supermarket. The application is doing you a favour.

 

[SaddlerJonny]

I thought you were (training to be?) a policeman or something?

Yeah! I am doing a University course in Policing. Hope to be a copper in the future! Still only 19 and I have a year left on the course though. The number of police jobs are getting smaller and smaller too thanks to cuts, so even having a degree won't guarantee me a job. Getting work experience will be similarly as important as a degree.

 

[SaddlerJonny]

Just don't work at a supermarket. The application is doing you a favour.

What would you recommend as an alternative?

Never had a job before and looking at the jobs available to someone of my age with my kind of CV, I think a supermarket would be the best option. I'm genuinely all ears to suggestions though.

 

[blade1889]

Yeah! I am doing a University course in Policing. Hope to be a copper in the future! Still only 19 and I have a year left on the course though. The number of police jobs are getting smaller and smaller too thanks to cuts, so even having a degree won't guarantee me a job. Getting work experience will be similarly as important as a degree.

Theres an actual degree in policing? Or just a module within a degree?

Good luck!

Ps re your above question bar work, dealing with drunks and belligerent people I imagine would look great for the police.

 

[Magic]

What would you recommend as an alternative?

Never had a job before and looking at the jobs available to someone of my age with my kind of CV, I think a supermarket would be the best option. I'm genuinely all ears to suggestions though.

I'm only being semi-serious really. At the end of the day I still work at one but only two nights a week and now I've detached myself from being arsed from the shit that goes on, it's okay, and I'd get paid the same as if I worked three days. Couldn't do it full time though.

 

[SaddlerJonny]

Theres an actual degree in policing? Or just a module within a degree?

Good luck!

Ps re your above question bar work, dealing with drunks and belligerent people I imagine would look great for the police.

The degree itself is relatively new. Think it was invented in 2008 by a man called Professor Waddington who was genuinely the most terrifying older man I had ever met. Very tall and limber for his age. Super imposing too. He retired from lecturing this year though. Thank you!

I'll consider bar work! Again the no experience thing gets my CV flung out of a lot of application piles but I'll start to look at those kinds of jobs

 

[blade1889]

The degree itself is relatively new. Think it was invented in 2008 by a man called Professor Waddington who was genuinely the most terrifying older man I had ever met. Very tall and limber for his age. Super imposing too. He retired from lecturing this year though. Thank you!

I'll consider bar work! Again the no experience thing gets my CV flung out of a lot of application piles but I'll start to look at those kinds of jobs

I think with bar work its the kind of thing you need to go in to bars and give them your CV for as opposed to just doing internet applications too.

No experience is annoying but I've been offered bar work for this summer without any so you should be good if you apply to enough haha!

 

[epic73]

Americans. Especially at "soccer" games. Someone in front of me kept on saying things like "Wow, that guy has cool cleats!" I wanted to hit him.

 

[JimJams]

Weren't they very cool then?

 

[epic73]

Weren't they very cool then?

The "cleats"? I have no clue, I was paying attention to the match, not the players' feet.

 

[blade1889]

Pardon my ignorance and lack of appreciation for American popular culture but what are 'cleats'?

 

[Craig]

Football boots.

 

[lordofthepies]

Cyclists use them to clip in to their pedals.

 

[epic73]

Pardon my ignorance and lack of appreciation for American popular culture but what are 'cleats'?

 

[PaulHaddock]

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Those are football boots, not cleats, in Britain anyway.

 

[epic73]

But in America they're cleats, which is what I was complaining about in my original post.

 

[RavenBish]

Americans. Especially at "soccer" games. Someone in front of me kept on saying things like "Wow, that guy has cool cleats!" I wanted to hit him.

can't believe people have the audacity to have dialects in this day and age.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

I'm back to hating estate agents again.

"Yes Mr Biscuits, we'll get back to you today about the offer you put in".

I've heard fuck all.

 

[Magic]

I'm back to hating estate agents again.

"Yes Mr Biscuits, we'll get back to you today about the offer you put in".

I've heard fuck all.

Taking the biscuit, mate.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Taking the biscuit, mate.

Hard cheese I guess.

 

[appletablepenny]

Nobody ever rings you back. Once you realise that, life gets easier